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Perseverance descending under its parachute, as seen by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. I think this is one of my favorite pictures now.

Ads are the bane of the world... they're the whole reason social media listens to you and tries to get you addicted. The ad industry's end goal is basically just mind control I think.

For an assigment but I think it came out well. Now that I think of it, this may be kind of political (although I don't mean it politically, it was required by the assignment) so mods can remove if they want

It's kinda interesting how much angrier people seem to get over video games than many other products. I've never seen a forum full of people this angry about a cancelled vacuum cleaner or a shut-down headphone manufacturer, but I think this speaks to the success of KSP (and other video games people get mad over). They are good enough games that people get very, very invested in them and care this much. Honestly it's a testament to how darn good KSP is, now that I think about it.

I hate how I'm always being tracked. Reddit is the least subtle about it, but I'm sure all the big tech companies are very enthusiastically tracking me and sharing data between them. I was talking to my cuber friend, and I went on Reddit afterwards and would you look at that, it's suggesting all these random cubing posts that it never does. It also suggested a dance subreddit- I don't dance, but one of my relatives does, and I hate how Reddit knows that and exploits it specifically to get me addicted. Modern advertising is freaking creepy and is always listening to me, trying to get inside my brain (and succeeding so much more than I'd like). I feel like these days there's no practical other choice, either. If you don't want this I feel like you'd probably need to like delete every single account of yours and your family's and your friends's, force them all to use some UNIX-based OS (on which nothing works without an hour of debugging) and never touch any social media ever again, make a million user data deletion requests, and innumerable other practically impossible things.

I just bombed the absolute hell out of my calc bc practice test.... if i do that badly on exam day it's joever for me

"The game has different names in different parts of the UK: 'tig' in Yorkshire and Scotland, 'tick' in the North West of England, and 'it' in the South of England. In the United States of America, however, the game is usually called 'tag'. In 2018, the popular internet meme "How old were you when you found out ____" began circulating, which stated that the origin of the word tag was an acronym meaning 'touch and go'. Investigation by snopes.com found this to be false. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the origin of the name 'tag' is unknown, while the Oxford Dictionary of English speculates it to be a variant of 'tig', which itself is possibly a variant of 'tick'." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(game))

"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast" - Navy SEALS

Anyone know the name of the song playing at 2:35 in this video (which is very cool and that you should watch the entirety of)?

Floor 4764: You are in an American city, where everyone for some reason has 4 fingers. Curious about Ned, you find a nearby convenience store and ask if anyone's heard of Ned, and the Indian man in charge of the store points you to a house in the suburbs. You go there and find a very religious and righteous family, right next door to a relatively dysfunctional family consisting of a donut-loving nuclear power plant worker, a housewife with very tall blue hair, an unruly son, a very ruly daughter, and a baby.

When I experience this I try to find some fun or joy in it. It's hard, but coming at it with the attitude that these are tasks you hate and have to slog through makes it so much worse.

I guess I was unclear in the OP- I don't want to intercept the target with the robot's chassis, I want to shoot the target with a previously unmentioned shooter. Thanks for the help already given, though- they are interesting reads.

I'm programming a robot with a shooter on it and I want to hit a moving target (well, hit a stationary target while the robot's moving, but it's just a matter of reference frames). It's got a holonomic drivetrain (so it can detach its heading from its direction and thus aim anywhere while moving) and the shooter's angle is adjustable. The velocity of the shooter is also adjustable, but I'd rather not use that feature (too inconsistent on this robot) Anyone got any advice on doing this?